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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warunsun" data-source="post: 5789176" data-attributes="member: 6688054">There is no doubt in my mind that Forgotten Realms will remain the  default setting for fifth edition. I think it has more to do with the  many contracts for the new Neverwinter Nights MMO video game than any  other reason. All campaign promotions in the last year have been leading  up to this video game that was delayed due to the production company  being bought out by foreign interests.However, there is also no doubt in my mind that if WotC really wanted to  cash in on nostalgia feel they are trying to generate that releasing a  Greyhawk setting book or boxed set would be a very smart move for them.  Just like releasing the limited edition AD&D book set also brings  this nostalgia feel up in a major way. This April is going to be only  the second time that WotC directly published AD&D materials; the  other being when they did the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DnDCollectorsEdition.asp" target="_blank">TSR Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition  Boxed Set</a> in 1999. Nothing says old school and nostalgia better than  the World of Greyhawk or perhaps Blackmoor. I don't think Greyhawk would  need to be the core world as it was in First and Third editions but  just having some support would go a long way.All of the settings have their strong points and weak points. I like  Forgotten Realms but honestly I own it all several times over. I don't  even own everything for the realms but I have entirely too much AD&D  1E, 2E, and D&D 3E, v3.5, and 4E material already for the Forgotten  Realms on my shelf.  Undermountain is the defacto super dungeon of  Forgotten Realms. I personally have two Undermountain boxed sets and  three adventure modules (from Second Edition), a v3.5 super adventure  hardcover (covering the same), and there is a 4E 96-page hardcover book  on the way this year. However, I don't understand the description  because the Elder Elemental Eye cult is from the World of Greyhawk and  not the Forgotten Realms at all. Regardless, let us say that the  Forgotten Realms is well covered. If one of the goals of 5E is to be  able to use materials from all the editions then we should be able to  use these old source-books without needing to repurchase them or  re-purpose them with Greyhawk cultists. Very strange descriptions of  that 96 page product.They would be smarter to come up with something new I think. The Nentir  Vale for 4E was a good idea that was never fully realized. Something  fresh and new would be great as long as it didn't suck. They generally  keep all of these settings pretty generic feeling so it would be pretty  hard for them to screw it up. Eberron, for example, was a really nice  change for D&D v3.5.</blockquote>

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